Essere preso nel gorgo della passione

for string quartet and percussion (8:50)

The best translation of the work “Essere preso nel gorgo della passione” is “like having been seized by the swirl of passion”.

This composition has been primarily written for string quartet and percussion with the intention to be performed during the international festival and competition Tromp in the Netherlands (the year edition 2008).

This special musical happening has already built a large international name and it is good known by the devotees of string and percussion music.

Each new edition of this festival focuses in turn at one of these different music instrument groups, so this frequent idea of a “role rotation” lays the foundation for this composition.

Italian “gorgo” can be translated as “maelstrom” or “whirlpool” and this phenomenon explains the musical “role (re)turning” of the chosen percussion- and string instruments….

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